By creating a community of survivors, researchers, physicians and clinicians, The White Ribbon Project — under Heidi Nafman-Onda’s direction — has influenced real change.
CURE® Lung Cancer Heroes® 2021 Essay Book
CURE® presents our readers with a unique opportunity each year to nominate a colleague, patient, friend and family of outstanding individuals working to end the stigma and make a difference in the lives of those affected by lung cancer. Together as one community, we can raise awareness of lung cancer, and most importantly, recognize and celebrate the esteemed individuals contributing to improving the lives of patients with lung cancer, our Lung Cancer Heroes®.
"Dr. Rosenzweig’s commitment to helping patients with lung cancer and mesothelioma is truly heroic," several colleagues write.
These are the powerful stories of real-life heroes in the lung cancer space who persevere with great compassion and teach us to embrace, not avoid, life’s setbacks and challenges.
"Dr. Hossein came to the United States by himself in his teens as a political refugee from the turmoil in Iran," writes a colleague who nominated him for the Lung Cancer Heroes® Award. "Completely on his own and through his hard work, scholarship, initiative and refusal to let things get him down, he went to college and then to medical school."
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